Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.[5] Novelist Giles Foden describes its hypertextual features as useful for pattern-making when planning a novel, as well as for organising research notes.[6]
It also offers functionality similar to that of outliner and spatial hypertext/mind mapping tools, in addition to knowledge management, database and agent (persistent search) tools.
Tinderbox is used for a wide variety of tasks:
As a personal web publishing system, with good support for blog creation and management [7]